# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1981_S191
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and satisfactorily pass a written and oral examina-
tion in the areas of deaconess service.

d. Applicants who have satisfactorily passed their
examination shall be given a certificate of eligibility
by the Colloquy Board.

4.97 Placement

Each applicant whom the board declares qualified
for the deaconess ministry shall be assigned her first
placement by the Council of Presidents acting as the
Board of Assignments.

4.98 Report to the Convention

The Colloquy Board for the Deaconess Ministry
shall render a full report on its activities to each
convention of the Synod.

RESOLUTIONS 191

written and oral examination in the areas of deacon-
ess service.

d. The examining committee shall recommend to
the faculty of the school or college for endorsement
those applicants who have successfully passed the
written and oral examinations.

e. Theschool or college certifying the applicant as
a candidate for the deaconess ministry shall

1. report its action to the deaconess colloquy
board and the President of the District in which the
applicant resides, and

2. publish a report of its favorable action in an
official periodical of the Synod.

4.97 Placement

Each applicant whom the board declares qualified
for the deaconess ministry shall be assigned her first
placement by the Council of Presidents acting as the
Board of Assignments.

Delete 4.98

Action: Adopted (10).

(The committee substituted “entities” for “educational
institutions” in 4.91 and 4.94; “preparatory entity” for “educa-
tional institution” in 4.94 b, c, d; and “institutions where
deaconesses are prepared” for “institutions preparing deacon-
esses” in 4.96.)

To Prevent Decrease in Present
Percentage of College Support

RESOLUTION 6-17A
Overtures 6-40A—F, 6-42 (CW, pp. 262, 263—264)

WHEREAS, The Board for Higher Education postu-
lates adopted by the 1979 convention state that “the
schools of Synod are gifts from God and need to be
nourished and nurtured according to the Scriptural
principles of stewardship”; and

WHEREAS, The ministries of the LCMS depend
greatly for their personnel, organization, and education
upon the colleges of the Synod, and the report of the
Board for Higher Education demonstrates that a high
percentage of candidates to the pastoral ministry are
supplied from collegiate preministerial programs; and

WHEREAS, The Synod in its 1979 convention also
reiterated its intention to provide “increased support
for its colleges and seminaries in order that the procla-
mation of the Gospel of Christ may grow and flourish
among us and in all the world” (Res. 6-01A); and

WHEREAS, The percentage of synodical financial
support supplied for the operating budget of our
synodical schools decreased from an average of 45
percent in 1965 to an average of 25 percent at present
and continues to decrease; and

WHEREAS, History teaches that many colleges in the
United States formerly owned and operated by church
denominations have become increasingly secularized
as church support and control diminished; and

WHEREAS, Our Synod is historically committed to

the objective of providing its own programs of training
for its pastors, teachers, and other church workers;
therefore be it

Resolved, That the Synod in convention state that it
will not permit any further decrease in the financial
support of its programs of professional training and
that the Synod by this resolution commit itself to
maintain no less than a 25-percent level of financial
support of operational expenses at its system of colleges
beginning in the fiscal year 1982—83; and be it further

Resolved, That the Synod go on record as reaffirming
the worth of its system of higher education and that it
thank God for the many blessings He has showered
upon the church through its programs of preparation of
professional leaders for the church; and be it finally

Resolved, That the congregations of the Synod be
urged to commit themselves to greater financial support
of the Synod so that these resolves may be carried out.

Action: Adopted (10).

(Discussion was begun in Session 7. An amendment which
called for funding colleges at a 25 percent level and would
authorize the Board of Directors to borrow funds for that
purpose, if necessary, was declined. The delegates also declined
to strike the first resolved.)

To Increase Percentage
of Seminary Budget Support

RESOLUTION 6-18A
Overtures 6-41A—C, 6-42 (CW, pp. 262—264)
WHEREAS, The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod